$BA (The Boeing Company)

Commercial airline and defense contractor $BA said it and UK Leisure Airline Jet2.com finalized order for 3 Next Generation 737-800s, valued at $288MM at current list prices. Jet2.com, a subsidiary of Dart Group, previously ordered 27 Next Generation 737-800s in Sept. 2015 and operates an all-Boeing fleet of more than 60 airplanes.

Qatar Airways has struck a deal with $BA valued at $2.2Bil for the purchase of six Boeing aircraft. The order includes two 747-8 Freighters and four long-haul passenger 777-300ERs. The airline currently operates a fleet of nearly 100 Boeing widebody airplanes and has more than 100 additional Boeing airplanes on order.

$VSAT completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) milestones for the ViaSat-3 class spacecraft. The payload CDR was successfully completed last week, and when combined with the successful bus CDR, conducted with $BA in mid-August, $VSAT and $BA are now moving forward with building, integrating and testing the first two satellites.

$TGI signed an agreement with $BA to continue their longstanding partnership to provide the environmental control systems (ECS) ducting and floor panels utilized on Boeing’s 737 (legacy and MAX), 767, 777X and 787 airplanes. The extensions will cover deliveries of these composite interior components into the next decade.

$BA and Japan Airlines (JAL) announced an order for four 787-8 Dreamliners. The order, which was attributed to an unidentified customer, is valued at more than $900MM at current list prices and will expand JAL's Dreamliner fleet to 49 airplanes. The carrier is expected to receive its 35th Dreamliner, a 787-9 later this week.

Aerospace company $BA said it will be procuring majority of
the aircraft structures and components required for building its T-X Air Force
training jet from $TGI. Once the Air
Force confirms the contract, Triumph’s aerospace structures unit in Texas will supply
the wing, vertical tail and horizontal tail structures.

Aerospace giant $BA has been awarded a $600MM contract by Air Force for preliminary design work on presidential planes. The company will be modifying two 747-8 jetliners, which will replace the two aging 747-200 presidential aircrafts. Engineering and Manufacturing Development contract for Air Force One is expected to be awarded in summer of 2018.

$BA submitted its bid for its MH-139 helicopter to replace the Air Force's aging Huey fleet. $BA claims that MH-139 will provide $1Bil in savings to Air Force over its 30-year lifecycle. Boeing is teaming up with Italy's Leonardo to offer a militarized version of the latter's commercial AW139. The 84-helicopter contract award is expected in 2018.

Malaysian national carrier Malaysia Airlines inked a MoU with $BA for 16 airplanes. The deal which is worth about $3Bil consists of eight 787-9 Dreamliners and eight 737 MAX 8s. This marks a victory for $BA because the national carrier was in talks with its European rival Airbus earlier this year, which fell through due to disagreements on pricing.

Satellite fleet operator SES has awarded $BA to design and build 7 new satellites. The medium earth orbit (MEO) satellites will be part of SES' O3b mPOWER network, which will be launched starting in 2021. $BA clinched the deal from Thales Alenia Space, which has been the prime contractor for O3b.

Airplane maker $BA appointed Phil Musser as its SVP of Communications effective Sept. 25. Phil will be succeeding Tom Downey, who is retiring from the company early next year. Phil comes with more than 20 years of experience in strategic communications and PR.

Ireland-based leasing company GTLK Europe has chosen AerData for fleet record management services. AerData is part of Digital Aviation and Analytics business unit, which comes under recently launched Boeing Global Services. $BA launched Boeing Global Services as its third business unit in June 2017 to tap the global aerospace market.

$BA expects to deliver 150 regional jets valued at $10Bil in
China through 2036. The company sees the need for 5,420 new single-aisle
airplanes through 2036 valued at $570Bil. For small wide-body, total deliveries
are expected to be 940 airplanes valued at $260Bil.

$BA projects a demand for 7,240 new airplanes in China over the
next 20 years valued at nearly $1.1 trillion. As per $BA’s annual China Current
Market Outlook, total airplane demand rose 6.3% over the 2016 forecast. Worldwide,
$BA projects the need for 41,030 new commercial airplanes over the next 20
years valued at $6.1 trillion.

$LUV extended its legacy of aircraft innovation by taking delivery of the airline's first $BA 737 MAX 8. $LUV expects to take delivery of 8 more MAX aircraft in the coming weeks with the plan to launch 9 MAX aircraft into revenue service throughout its network on Oct. 1.

British low-cost airline Monarch has signed up $BA's AerData for electronic asset management and transition services. Monarch plans to replace its current fleet of 36 Airbus A320s with Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircrafts. In 2016, the airline finalized the order for 30 Boeing 737 MAX 8s. AerData is part of the Digital Aviation and Analytics business unit.

JP Lease Products & Services, leasing arm of Tokyo-based Japan Investment Adviser (JIA), today finalized an order for 10 $BA 737 MAX 8 airplanes, valued at $1.12Bil at current list prices. This is the first time that JIA is directly purchasing airplanes from aviation giant. The order was part of the commitment gave by JIA at Paris Air Show in June.

$BA delivered its maiden 787 Dreamliner to El Al Israel Airlines. Israeli-based carrier is investing $1.25Bil for renewing its aging fleet, which it believes to arrest the drop in market share and win back business customers. The all-Boeing carrier leased the airplane through an agreement with Air Lease Corporation.